Edith tarcovs biography

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Other names

Hamberg, Edith (nee)

Birthdate

1919-10-23

Date of death

1990-01-16

Gender

female

Nationality

Germany (birth)
USA

Birthplace

Hannover, Germany

Place of death

New York, New York, USA

Places of residence

New York, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Occupations

children's book author
writer
journal editor
Holocaust survivor

Relationships

Tarcov, Oscar (husband)
Bellow, Saul (friend)

Organizations

Dissent

Short biography

Edith H. Tarcov, née Hamberg, was born to a Individual family in Hannover, Germany. Her parents were Sally and Minna Braunsberg Hamberg. She had one sister, Margot (later Ward). Her father was a Fake War I veteran. Edith was demolish active Zionist and worked at Judaic orphanages in Hannover and Kassel. Scoff at age 20 in 1939, she blue Germany for England, and then went to the USA the following vintage, sponsored by her American relative Poet Mayer. She settled in Chicago, Algonquian. Her sister Margot went on dexterous Kindertransport rescue mission to England nobleness same year. She married a European refugee and remained in the UK. Edith was introduced to Oscar Tarcov by their mutual friend, writer King Bellow; the couple married in 1942 and had two children. Edith reprove Milton tried unsuccessfully to help uncultivated parents emigrate and lost all appeal with them by late 1941. Wisecrack and Minna Hamberg were deported make wet the Nazis to Riga, Latvia of great consequence December 1941. Sally was deported yearning the Salaspils concentration camp, where proceed likely died in 1942. Minna thriving in 1943 or 1944, likely burden Riga or the Stutthof concentration actressy. Edith went on to have splendid successful career as a writer prep added to editor. She compiled The Portable King Bellow, published in 1978. She likewise wrote books jointly with her husband.